Telemann: The Double Concertos with Recorder

Bosgraaf, Erik;
Ensemble Cordevento

95249

Erik Bosgraaf has won international acclaim for his Brilliant Classics recordings of music from Jakob van Eyck (Der Fluyten Lust Hof, BC93391) to Pierre Boulez (Dialogues, BC94842). His discography includes no fewer than three previous albums dedicated to Georg Philipp Telemann, the composer who more than any other in the German Baroque elevated the recorder and its relatives to the status of a high-art instrument, capable of hitherto undreamt expressive range and technical refinement. Following those albums of solo fantasias, accompanied sonatas, and suites and concertos (BC93757, BC95247, BC95249), Bosgraaf now presents a selection of concertos, composed during the first decades of the eighteenth century, in which he is paired with a second soloist, be it another recorder, a bassoon or viola da gamba. Telemann himself confessed that his concertos ‘smell of France’, which may indeed be scented not only in some of their movement titles but in the stately dotted rhythms and graceful ornamentation of their slower movements.

Works:
• Telemann: Concerto TWV 52:a1 in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba, strings & b.c.
• Telemann: Concerto TWV 52:a2 in A minor for 2 recorders, strings & b.c.
• Telemann: Concerto TWV 52:B1 in B flat major for two recorders, string orchestra & b.c.
• Telemann: Concerto TWV 52:e1 in E minor for flute, recorder, strings & b.c.
• Telemann: Concerto TWV 52:F1 in F major for recorder, bassoon, strings & b.c.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

5028421952499